Potato Journal
  • Year: 2006
  • Volume: 33
  • Issue: 1 and 2

Kufri surya: A new heat-tolerant Potato variety suitable for early planting in North-Western Plains, Peninsular India and processing into french fries and chips

  • Author:
  • J.S. Minhas1, Devendra Kumar2, T.A. Joseph3, B.T. Raj2, S.M. Paul Khurana, S.K. Pandey1, S.V. Singh, B.P. Singh2, P.S. Naik1
  • Total Page Count: 9
  • Page Number: 35 to 43

1Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla 171 001, Himachal Pradesh, India

2Central Potato Research Institute Campus, Modipuram 250 110, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

3Central Potato Research Station, Muthorai, Ootacamund 643 004, Tamil Nadu, India

*Present address: Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur 482 001, Madhya Pradesh, India.

Abstract

Kufri Surya is an early maturing, heat tolerant and hopper-burn resistant potato variety with oblong tubers, white smooth skin and pale yellow flesh. This variety is meant for early (September) planting in north-western plains and for rabi and kharif plantings in peninsular India. It can also be grown in the main crop season in north-western and west-central plains. The total tuber yield of Kufri Surya is at par with high yielding variety Kufri Bahar. This variety yields excellent defect free tubers with high proportion of large (>85mm) tubers suitable for processing into high quality French fries and chips. The reducing sugar content of tubers of this variety is less than 100mg/100g fresh weight and the tuber dry matter content is 20–21% at harvest.